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絵本大岡名誉政談

1887 · 鈴木源四郎 · 48 pictures

This Meiji-era Japanese picture book (ehon), published in 1887 by Suzuki Genshirō, retells court cases attributed to the Edo magistrate Ōoka Echizen-no-kami, and was made for a popular readership. Its woodblock-style black-and-white pages show seated figures in interior rooms with patterned screens, kimono textures, and fan-like sliding panels, offering a designer studies in compositional framing, dense linework, and flat graphic patterning of fabric and architecture.

Japanese picture books (ehon)

National Diet Library, Japan (国立国会図書館) · Public Domain Mark (PDM), National Diet Library · More from this library